
Originally Posted by
Pa3s
You obviously see communism/socialism and libertarianism as contradictory philosophies because you think of the "communism" established by the Bolsheviks and Stalin and not what communism is actually supposed to be. Unfortunately, this misconception is very common.
Communism is actually – and exclusively – an economic system. That means it can be paired with various political systems. What we have seen in so many countries like the Soviet Union, North Korea, China, ect. is not communism, but an extreme form of state capitalism, in which the state simply takes the place and function of the capitalist elite.